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enYoung Cattle Company | 2014 Stocker Award Winner Describe Their Successful Stocker Operationhttp://beefmagazine.com/stockerbackgrounders/young-cattle-company-2014-stocker-award-winner-describe-their-successful-stocke
<div class="node-body video-body"><p>Rick and Jayne Young, Young Cattle Company have built a multifaceted <a href="http://beefmagazine.com/sectors/stockerbackgrounders">backgrounding and stocker business</a> in a part of the world where it was a novelty before 1995, when they moved here. The way they&rsquo;ve grown supply and increased operational value serves as a learning model for others. Learn more about the 2014 National Stocker Award winner in this video interview.</p>
<p>The National Stocker Award is sponsored by Zoetis.</p></div>
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<div class="node-body blog-body">The potential value of gain depends on the overall feeder price level, along with the price spread (rollback) between the purchase price of the stockers and the selling price of the feeders.</div>
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<div class="node-body article-body">Research shows that the additional weight gain in stockers from the use of implants and ionophores is independent and additive. </div>
<div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://beefmagazine.com/stockerbackgrounders/stacking-technology-stockers-adds-more-pounds" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://beefmagazine.com/stockerbackgrounders/stacking-technology-stockers-adds-more-pounds#commentsStocker/BackgroundersTue, 07 Oct 2014 10:00:00 +000080641 at http://beefmagazine.com<p>Ryan Reuter, beef cattle researcher at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, says producers can and should maximize their economic return during their time of ownership. That includes feeding ionophores.</p>
2014 National Stocker Award Winner Builds Value From The Middlehttp://beefmagazine.com/stockerbackgrounders/2014-national-stocker-award-winner-builds-value-middle
<div class="node-body article-body">Building relationships on both sides of the trade are what drive Young Cattle Company’s expansion and success. Rick & Jayne Young are the 2014 BEEF Stocker Award Winner. The award is sponsored by Zoetis.</div>
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<div class="node-body article-body">The BeefBasis Stocker Index is new price discovery tool that offers buyers and sellers a more precise look at what calves are worth in their locale at any given time.</div>
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<div class="node-body blog-body"> High calf prices and relatively low feed prices make 2014 a year to seriously consider adding pounds and profit.</div>
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By: Matthew A. Diersen, South Dakota State University Department of Economics professor
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<div class="node-body article-body">A look back at past price relationships during May sheds some light on the gross margin of running stockers. This spring the gross margin and feed costs have again changed suggesting implications for several different prices. In May a stocker can be purchased in South Dakota and turned out on grass or fed to gain 200 lbs. over a 4.5 month period. </div>
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By Heather Hamilton Maude
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<div class="node-body article-body">In the future, preconditioning of calves will demand progress in the areas of health, accountability and transparency.</div>
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<div class="node-body video-body">Dale Blasi spoke during the 2014 Cattlemen's College at the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville, TN on the stocker outlook for the upcoming year. </div>
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Alan Newport for Beef Producer
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<div class="node-body article-body">Todd Churchill doesn't like being Bud Williams to newly arrived stocker cattle.</div>
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